Infrastructures role in lowering Asias trade costs : building for trade / edited by Douglas H. Brooks, David Hummels.

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Brooks (Asian Development Bank Institute, Japan) and Hummels (economics, Purdue U., US) present 8 papers conceptually and empirically exploring the role of infrastructure development in facilitating trade in Asia by lowering costs. Topics include implications for transport infrastructure and trade costs of trends in Asian trade, trade costs and Asian ports, empirical estimates of transportation costs in Asia, port competitiveness in Indonesia, the importance of foreign direct investment and exports to infrastructure and trade costs in Malaysia, infrastructure development in the fast- growing economy of China, and trade transportation costs in South Asia.